Symptom

A symptom represents one of the subjective demonstrations of a Maladie or a pathological process, as expressed by the patient. In general, for a given pathology, the symptoms are multiple.

They are opposed to the sign S, which are objective demonstrations of the disease, raised by the doctor.

The symptoms are thus for the patient the elements of alarm of a pathological process in progress, thus justifying the recourse to a doctor visit making it possible to objectify the complaint by finding signs, which, gathered in Syndrome then in Maladie, will make it possible to guide the therapeutic attitude.

Etymology

Of the Greek “sympiptein”, “to meet”.

In situation

For example, in the Osteoarthritis of hip, the patient can complain about problems to walk (symptom), which the expert will objectify while finding of the limitations of the mobility of the hip (physical sign), sometimes associated with anomalies on radiographies of the basin (radiological sign).

Examples of symptoms: to see List of the symptoms in human medicine

Social psychology

From the psychosociological point of view, the symptom is the particular way in which an individual finds his place in the world and regulates his report/ratio with this one, according to the constraints and of psychosocial stimulations which reach him. The symptom is a prolongation of the personality, which makes it possible the latter to apprehend the world but also of distancier, by a whole of protections constitutive of the known as symptom.

Thus the symptom is it, from the point of view of the subject:

  • strategy of individualization,
  • material of the personality,
  • continuous interpretation of the world,
  • dynamic behavioral method,
  • protective device of Ego (or ego ),
  • pathological routine as soon as that it chokes the creativity of the subject or undermines the integrity of others.

Psychoanalysis

The symptom is satisfaction, discharge instinctual, it offers such a primary education benefit. One could not seek to withdraw with the mentally ill his symptom, in what he enjoys it, and which the psychologist must recognize like pleasure.

This primary education benefit corresponds to the significance which the symptom carries, significance which only allows the expression of a desire Inconscient - the symptom thus attaches to the Représentation, even with the speech. For Jacques Lacan, the symptom is thus Métaphore ( the symptom is a metaphor which one wants or not to say it ).

The symptom can also generate a secondary benefit, additional pleasure which is thus not connected directly to the direction that wants to state this sign of the disease, but which comes more than one chance relative this time to nature even of the symptom. Thus, litigious the Paranoiac rejoining with him a movement of support.

See too

External bonds

Simple: Symptom

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